the areas to go out felt too strip mall/big chain. those burbs also remind me of some of the cities down south where you're in city limits but you got these country roads/streets with no sidewalks, hanging headlights, heavily forested, shyt just feels like living out back vs an urban area. like in oakland, even the residential areas feel "city", not in the sense of high rises, but there are concrete sidewalks, blocks/streets follow a grid, usually have coffee spot, liquor store, a few local spots to eat, etc within walking distance - arlington is similar IMO, especially from court house - va square. PG county has a lot of spots that are purely residential and you have to drive to get to simple shyt.
PG also felt like it was mostly locals, since I was a transplant, I liked DC/NoVA more since that's where most transplants live, and some of them was hood AF and I already admit I've gotten pretty bourgie in my old age
(edit - but that could be because we were all young and broke then so that's just where my friends/dudes i dated could afford to live)
I highkey wanna join them when get the rest of my shyt together. If we wanna keep DC culturally Black and maintain a significant presence, we gotta dig deep and hold on to the Soufside, Northeast, and what’s left of Uptown.
hell na. You might as well just said move to Stafford or Fredericksburg
